Category: Communication
HTMLform.com + WordPress: Gather Feedback with Style
Editor’s Note: This is a sponsored post. Did you teach a course to a group recently? Have you ever made a presentation before your co-workers? Do you usually write and distribute reports? If yes, did you bother to ask your colleagues their feedback or opinion about how it went? FromRead More
Happy Employees: How to Create Them
It’s expensive to train employees but it’s even more so to lose one. Figures don’t lie. Although employee turnover in the US is at a low 1.4 percent, the fact remains that the cost of losing an employee may cost a company 25 to 250 percent of his annual income.Read More
Perception – Key to Inner Peace
I’ve come to believe our perception at work and life in general carries a great deal of importance. Many years ago while striving to climb the “corporate ladder to success”, my boss asked me to meet with him privately, in a very serious, foreboding tone of voice. I immediately scouredRead More
7 Ways to an Effective Team Meeting
The top management has just assigned a very important project to your department. You eagerly gather your team and show them what the management wants. Your teammates share their opinions, brainstorm on ideas, laugh a little, and tell stories on their personal lives. After two hours, you adjourn the meeting,Read More
Why We Should Say “No”
A good friend of mine recently shared a secret with me. When I asked her how she managed to stay so calm, cool and collected, she told me it was something she learned years ago that has helped her both professionally and personally. She learned to say “NO”. Personal ObservationsRead More
Networking Tips for Freelancers
The idea of working at home is a dream for a lot of people and for good reason. Let’s face it: Who doesn’t like the idea of staying indoors in a nice warm house on a cold snowy winter day when everyone else is scraping ice off their windows soRead More
The Art of Persuasion: How to Hone Your Influencing Skills
The art of persuasion, of influencing the people around you, is a vital skill in the workplace. Without it, you’ll simply be ineffective. Sure, you can bend people to your iron will, or get people to do what you want with compulsion, manipulation or coercion, but at the cost ofRead More
Forget PowerPoint! How to Deliver Awesome Presentations
Ever found yourself struggling to stay awake in a presentation? Make sure your presentations are awesome with these simple guidelines